4. Character Analysis
Yossarian: protagonist, alienated, insane outsider, anti-hero, avoid risking life, morbid life philosophy, illogical world (life threated by missions), logical to survive, self-preservation, in conflict by friends’ death, when have to make a choice, between, formed his own Catch-22---no mortal concern about others, meaningless life; if yes, life in danger, flee, liberate
because you cannot do one thing until you do another thing, but you cannot do the second thing until you do the first thing. 相互矛盾的 困窘 • Eg. It's a Catch-22 situation here. Nobody wants to support you until you're successful, but without the support how can you ever be successful?
3. Plot Overview
Nately died in mission when falling in love with a whore who blamed Yossarian and tried to kill him. Milo claims every has a share, but false. Arrested in Rome, 2 choices---court martial or home honorable (support, agree 80 missions). Desert army , flee to Sweden, goodbye to dehumanizing cold machinery of the military, rejects the rule of Catch-22, a future in his own control.
1. Nazi’s butcher: atomic bomb, people’s panic
2. Cold war: Mccarthyism, mutural fear and hostility
3. The Korean War and Vietnam War 4. Assassination of Kennedy and Martin
Catch-22
Dalin Wang
Content
1. Catch-22 (work, paradoxical,) 2. Background 3. Plysis 5. Themes 6. Writing Techniques
Catch-22 is a satirical novel which was first
3. Plot Overview
Yossarian’s story, core of the novel, events refracted through his point of view, take the war personally, not swayed by national ideals, furious when life in danger, desire to live, so in hospital, faking illness to avoid war, troubled by his memory of Snowden, him in ridiculous, absurd, desperate, tragic circumstances---friends disappear, bombed by own men, top dogs merciless.
Luther King, Feminism, anti-war movement, Water-Gate scandal 5. American dream disillusion
3. Plot Overview
WWII, Yossarian and his squadron stationed on Pianosa. They endure a nightmarish, absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence. (inhuman resources, brutal combat situations, good aerial photographs, number of missions inscreasing, a war going on in Yossarian’s mind, crazy)
1. Catch-22 (paradoxical)
• insane so can be grounded • claim insane only prove sane, can not be
grounded • a Catch-22 situation: an impossible situation
published in 1961. It is set during WWII in 1943 and is frequently cited as one of the great literary works of the twentieth century. It uses a distinctive nonchronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from different characters' points of view and out of sequence so that the time line develops along with the plot.